Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 2 | Smallfry had told him that a body had recently been dumped at the tunnel entrance where the beck came into view for several yards before vanishing again into the darkness below ground . |
| 3 | Sapt had told them that a friend of the King 's was a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda and that the King needed their help . |
| 4 | I remembered what Agrippa had told me and a faint suspicion stirred . |
| 5 | Dotty was n't at all sure the poor woman should n't have been left in the telephone box until the ambulance arrived , rather than carried by George across the square in a fireman 's lift under an old blanket , but Rose had convinced her that a scandal must be avoided at all costs . |
| 6 | As an adult , this woman came to understand that the fairy tale had helped her greatly in throwing off her dependence on her brother , as it had convinced her that an early dependence on him need not interfere with her later ascendancy . |
| 7 | Although the White House had convinced itself that a Labour victory would be perfectly tolerable , the President is undoubtedly pleased that Britain is still being run by a man and a party he knows he can rely on . |
| 8 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 9 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
| 10 | These were the dead whose stink had touched her when a child . |
| 11 | The house agent had assured me that a bathroom and lavatory had been installed upstairs above the scullery ; looking at those nettles , I hoped he had told the truth . |